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Lagrange, “Working Mathematician” on Music Considered as a Source for Science

In: Mathematics and Music

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  • Jean Dhombres

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Permanent secretary to the First class of the French National Institute, which was then a revolutionary replacement for the Academy of Science, Jean-Baptiste Delambre has left an interesting and rather personal portrait of Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813). In the tradition of academic life, the purpose of such an account written in 1813, was less to explain the scientific achievements of a man, than to portray what a great scientist should be1. Delambre then goes as far as telling us a socially bad story about Lagrange. And it concerns Lagrange’s taste for music, or better said his misuse of music.

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  • Jean Dhombres, 2002. "Lagrange, “Working Mathematician” on Music Considered as a Source for Science," Springer Books, in: Gerard Assayag & Hans Georg Feichtinger & Jose Francisco Rodrigues (ed.), Mathematics and Music, chapter 4, pages 65-78, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-662-04927-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04927-3_4
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